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Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/nexus-mods-new-owners-promise-they-wont-monetise-the-site-to-death-as-users-panic-at-the-whiff-of-venture-capital-the-new-owners-are-here-not-sitting-in-a-distant-tower-remotely-directing-us-all-towards-some-nefarious-goals/

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  • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    See all these free mods!? They’re just for you to use however you want to!! Pretty awesome right. Just enjoy this .5mbs download. Oh you want faster download speeds? Well… Sir. That will be $12 a month. Evil laugh

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t they already do that?

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tbh, unless you’re downloading a DLC size mod or a big 4K textures pack the installs are nearly instant

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      • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s the joke

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nexus Mods is far too late on the monetization aspect. The restrictions placed on mod downloading sucks, and it hard pushes buying a membership. Not to mention they basically gave up on vortex and its a buggy mess even if you run it native.

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    • GunValkyrie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They gave up on vortex to make the nexus mods app. Which is pretty impressive so far. I would recommend reading the articles from the makers of it that discuss how they are making it and why. It’s really interesting.

      I have been using the nexus mods app for cyberpunk and it’s really slick and easy.

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      • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wasn’t aware there was a replacement that was suitable. I will have to look into that, thank you.

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.

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    • punkibas@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Someone mentioned this in another thread and I found it interesting:

      Ckan kerbal space program mods

      Apparently its a frontend for mods that’s hosted on github

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Github, that’s limiting API calls, hmm…

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    • d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems like a good idea. I wonder if there’s anything already similar.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Would a federated discovery frontend work? Peertube’s back end of the service would probably work great as a starting point since it uses torrents to ease up on traffic for individual servers

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      • pepper0@aus.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        @daniskarma
        just use magnet:// links, and optionally ZeroNet if you really require html site.

        Gnutella2, e2dk:// had network wide plain text search function.

        @mnemonicmonkeys
        unfortunately WebTorrent is not feasible due inability of web browsers to participate in current DHT network.

        Find freedom by abandoning https web. In real p2p there is no distinction between fronend or backend, all peer equal.

        @games

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hit me up with an addy when you’re on it!

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      • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ooh I’ll take some addy too. Been too long and I need to clean my fuckin house.

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  • iamjackflack@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hahaha yea right… give it 6-12 months and that will change

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  • narr1@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sure buddy, unfortunately they done that already. I especially love the 3 mbps cap on downloads with free accounts.

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  • Thassodar@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When is Nexus Mods 2: Electric Boogaloo?

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re in luck, it’s already in the works.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a bridge to sell anyone who believes that.

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  • LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, so basically Nexus Mods is dead to me now. Whenever venture capital is injected to anything, it’s a bad sign. I wonder if those Venture Capitalists are from the crypto community…They’ve been souring a lot of potentially cool projects with blockchain/web3 nonsense, like Playtron, for example.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Read the article. They are.

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      • LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I did, and my worries were confirmed! I haven’t updated my comment.

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  • caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    „Trust me, bro, we won‘t enshitify, please don‘t leave and make something new elsewhere that’s out of our control.“

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Narrator: they monetised the site to death.

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    • Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      … and beyond!

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Obviously they will. Years down the road. 🤗

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  • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck Nexus Mods. You already need an account to download anything.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, unless someone makes an alternative, people are going to use it.

      They do need to provide a lot of bandwidth, which isn’t free, though I wonder how viable it’d be for someone to create a Nexus-like Website using magnet URLs and BitTorrent as a backend.

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      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The issue with using torrents is longevity. You’d still want/need traditional storage backing it all. Don’t want some mod to become lost media because nobody is actively seeding it.

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      • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are JS based torrent downloaders. That would work for the normies to get files, but you’d still have to find a way to convince people to host files on the backend. It’d probably take a full-on desktop client wrapper with an embedded torrent client but that’s a pretty hard sell for the average nerd if you’re upfront, and probably a harder sell if you’re dishonest about it.

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    • Forester@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A free account.

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      • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s still an extra barrier. There’s zero point other than tracking what people do.

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  • SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh so they’ll do it subtly enough to think people won’t notice.

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  • MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Translation: “Once all the hub-bub dies down we intend to as slowly as you’ll allow, slip in monetization.”

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shortly after we introduce monetisation so terrible, everyone hates it - just to test your pain threshold

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    • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just the tip, you won’t even feel it.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup we’ve never seen this happen before, not ever. Not once!

      /s

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      • MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Exactly! No venture capitalist has ever taken something that could be monetized but wasn’t, bought it out, and then proceeded to monetize it into irrelevancy before…

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